Simply installing new or additional RAM sticks can kick your PC's performance into high gear. Here's how to do it, plus four options to buy.

In part 4 of the series "Build a Great Media-Editing PC," we show you how to install the RAM and peripheral cards.

Installing RAM in your PC is one of the easiest, yet most crucial tasks. Do it the right way, and you should have a faster, more responsive PC that is better at handling your commands.

If your computer is slow and struggling to cope, adding more Ram can be an inexpensive way to give it a boost. We explain how to do it in three easy steps.

Because a computer with insufficient RAM has poor performance, adding more boosts the PC's speed for little cost. Adding a second hard drive, however, does not increase your RAM.

What if we move to 16GB of RAM, which has long been considered the sweet spot? Things are going to work much better. In fact, with 16GB of RAM, most of the problems with 8GB go away, except for one -- ...

Running out of memory can cause performance issues. Here's how to see how much memory is in your PC, and how fast it is.

Knowing which RAM slot to use on a computer is important to avoid performance problems. A RAM socket is also known as a Memory Socket.